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Fabric Journal Covers

How was your Thanksgiving? Gary and I enjoyed lots of food and family time at his brother's house. I made the coleslaw salad with the crunchy ramen noodles. It was a direct request from Gar's brother. He loves that stuff! I was disappointed that there wasn't any pumpkin pie for dessert but I managed to eat some French Silk pie instead haha. I still want pumpkin pie though...

For the flying geese, I cut 2.5" squares and strips. I drew a diagonal line on the squares and sewed them to the ends of the strips to form the flying geese. Once I decided on a color layout, I sewed the strips together until I had the 10.5" x 23" measurement.

All of these strips were in my scrap bins!

I happened to be cleaning up my sewing mess and found the pattern for this fun cassette tape block. I thought it would be perfect for the front of a journal! You can find the free pattern at Sewing Under Rainbow HERE. What a fun block! It uses very small pieces of fabric, perfect for scrap busting. I want to make so many more!

The elastic strip was sewn to the front panel (right sides together) so it would show on the back, but it could be sewn to the back panel if you want it to show on the front. The hardest part about these is figuring out the spacing on the front of the journal so the design is centered the way you want. After making two journals, though, I think I have a good idea of how to make it work!

These journal covers are perfect for highlighting a mini quilt block or even orphan blocks! I'm going to dig through my quilt block bin to see what else I can make!